Hand-rubber for washing purposes



(No Model.)

B. MOGOVERN & J. H. HEWIT.

HAND RUBBER POR WASHING PURPOSES.

Patented Mar. 15,1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BERNARD MOGOVERN, OF FRIDGEPORT, AND JAMES H. HEWI'I, OF FAIRFIELD,CONNECTICUT.

HAND-RUB BER FOR WASHING PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,268, dated March15, 1887.

Application filed November 19, 1886. Serial No. 219,384. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BERNARD MoGovERN and JAMES H. HEWIT, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Bridgeport and Fairfield, respectively,in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Hand-Rubbers for WashingPurposes; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to certain novel and useful improvements in theconstruction of what are known as hand-rubbers for washing purposes, andhas for its object to produce a device of this description in which thesoap shall be constantly in position for use without any manipulation ofthe hand; and with these ends in view our invention consists in certaindetails of construction and combination of elements hereinafter fullydedescribed, and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which our invention appertainsmay understand more fully its construction and operation, we willproceed to describe the same in detail, referring by letter to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective of our improvement; Fig. 2, a longitudinalsection, and Fig. 3 a plan View.

Similar letters denote like parts in the several figures of thedrawings.

A are pouches constructed from wire or other suitable material andadapted to hold ordinary cakes of soap. This wire is formed into an opennet-work, as shown; or any material may be used which will permit theexudation of suds when the device is in operation.

13 are plates, preferably made from tin and placed against the cakes ofsoap from the inside.

0 are bow-springs, which are placed between the plates in such manner asto exert a v constant spring-pressure against the same.

D are cross-pieces, pivoted together and secured at their extremities tothe ends of the pouches and operating after the manner of lazy-tongs.These cross-pieces are preferably made detachable from the pouches, inorder that the latter may be readily opened to renew the soap.

In adapting our improvement for use, the soap is first placed in thepouches, the plates arranged back of the soap, the bow'springs placedbetween the plates, and the pouches fastened together by means of thecross-pieces against the resiliency of the springs. It will thus beobvious that as fast asthe soap wears away by rubbing, the action of thesprings against the p ates will force the soap outward against the sidesof the pouches. In other words, the wear of the soap is compensated forby the spring action of the plates against the. soap itself.

We do not wish to confine ourselves to a double pouch for the soap,since a single plate and spring may be used in connection with one pouchwithout departing from the spirit of our invention.

We are aware that flexible receptacles have been made for a cake ofsoap, in which the wear of the latter is taken up by the grasp of thehand, and we therefore do not wish to be understood as claiming any suchconstruction.

What we do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a hand-rubber for washing purposes, the combination, with the pouchesfor containing the s0ap,0f the plates placed behind the cakes of soap,bowsprings arranged between said plates, and means, as cross-piecespivoted together and attached at their extremities to the pouches, forconnecting said pouches, sub stantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

BERNARD MCGOVERN. JAMES H. HEWIT.

Witnesses:

T. W. SMITH, J r., S. S. WILLIAMsoN.

